Shane O'Mara
shanewriter.bsky.social
Shane O'Mara
@shanewriter.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, psychologist, writer; Prof Exp Brain Res, Trinity College Dublin; newsletter @ www.brainpizza.com; New book: Talking Heads @ www.shaneomarawriter.com
My new project (a book released in stages):
Cognitive Republic: Building Societies That Experiment, Learn, and Evolve - Reinventing Democracies as Learning, Adaptive, Systems

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#cognitive #democracies #renewal #republic #learning #newdirections #systems
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Trinity
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Indeed. And the simple things to make the tech work. jfc. Here's a screenshot of the co-pilot solution to remove randomly appearing line breaks in a large Word file - install a macro in word...
October 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
October 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
September 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
There's something lovely about sitting on the upper deck of the bus (normally, I take a train, but there are issues this evening)
September 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Even in these times, there is beauty.
July 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Study this carefully, especially the bottom...
June 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
against civilisational nostalgia: western identity and global cognitive drift-the supposed narrative of civilisational unity obscures systematic motivated reasoning, preventing adaptive institutional evolution.
More:
www.brainpizza.com/p/against-ci...
#psychscisky #politics #USA #Europe #China
June 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The V & A is on the move.
Victoria Hill is just up the road, btw...
www.tripadvisor.ie/Attraction_R...
May 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
‘a low dishonest decade’: if an LLM can outrun your logic, there's a problem
Latest and maybe greatest or maybe ok-ist post is posted… ChatGPT beats the New York Times hands down at logical reasoning and identifying cognitive biases….😉😀

open.substack.com/pub/brainpiz...
May 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🧠🎬TRDA funded PhD @ TCD! fNIRS to study films, stories in neurotypicals & patients. Design tasks, work with patients. 1st class/high 2.1 (MSc a plus), Python, human participant exp. Stipend + full fees (EU & intl). Start Sept 2025. Apply by 14 Jun→ smomara@tcd.ie #PhD #psychskyence #neuroskyence
May 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
May 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Guess?
May 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Pollution is a choice.
May 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Dive in
May 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Dublin, Spring
April 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I feel like I'm in bizarro world: the contrast between what's actually happening (🍃🔥💩), and la-la land where everything is fine...
April 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
April 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Evening sky
April 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
😀
March 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Lots of worries online about institutional decay/capture. Much of this based on a misperception regarding institutions. Institutions are cognitive communities, comprised of people who think and act in ways courageous or cowardly
More:
www.brainpizza.com/p/how-instit...
#institutions #cowards
March 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
🤦‍♂️😢😭🇫🇷🇮🇹👀
March 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
And we we're off!
March 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
When power becomes personal (part 2): A psychological analysis and survival guide for the populace
www.brainpizza.com/p/when-power...

#psychscisky #brainpizza #leadership #Trump #personal #power #survivalguide
March 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM